Backend-minded AI engineering

Daniel Pina

Practical AI engineering with a backend mindset.

I write about agents, MCP, backend systems, automation, and the unglamorous parts of making AI tools actually work.

Daniel Pina

Focus

Systems around AI, not AI spectacle.

APIs, agents, MCP, automation, reliability, tooling, and the backend decisions that make AI workflows useful outside a demo.

  • AI agents
  • MCP
  • Backend engineering
  • Automation
  • LLM tooling
  • Reliability